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Re: [nexa] Press Release (CSA Regulation): Who benefits from the EU Commission’s mass surveillance law?
by 380°
Buongiorno,
grazie per la segnalazione
Giacomo Tesio <giacomo(a)tesio.it> writes:
> A newly-published independent investigation uncovered that parts of the
> European Commission, specifically the Directorate-General for Migration
> and Home Affairs (DG HOME), have been promoting industry interests in
> its proposed law to regulate the spread of child sexual abuse material
> online.
Alla luce delle recenti (?) scoperte, ho l'impressione che la domanda in
oggetto sia mal posta, dovrebbe essere piuttosto: «Who benefits from the
EU Commission»?
Per chiarimenti citofonare Pfiz... ops: https://corporateeurope.org/en
[...]
Saluti, 380°
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Sept. 27, 2023
La storia di Internet.
by 380°
Buongiorno Giuseppe,
Per essere chiari: io e tutte le fonti giornalistiche da cui attingo non
abbiamo mai inteso far credere che chiunque abbia lavorato a Internet e
*tantomeno* chi la utilizza e/o apprezza sia "un venduto" e
_men_che_meno_ un utile idiota.
...anche perché io stesso la utilizzo, /nonostante/ quello che so,
perché purtroppo non ci sono alternative ;-(.
Avviso ai naviganti: questo messaggio è piuttosto pesantino da leggere,
siete avvisati.
Giuseppe Attardi <attardi(a)di.unipi.it> writes:
[...]
> Si sente dire spesso che Internet nasce da ArpaNet che fu finanziata
> dai militari e, “quindi” è maligna e serve gli interessi geopolitici
> degli USA.
>
> Ma questo è una grossa semplificazione
Una semplificazione /quasi/ azzeccata. :-)
> propagandata dai media per gettarvi discredito.
Io non sono i media :-), io (e **molti** altri) ne parlo /tentando/ di
semplificare per riuscire a rimanere "leggibile" ma senza il minimo
intento propagandistico.
Purtroppo il discredito Internet se l'è ampiamente guadagnato
indipendentemente dalla (presunta) propagana dei media: le rivelazioni
di Snowden sono INAPPELLABILI e mostrano in tutta evidenza, a chi ha la
pazienza di studiare, come i bachi di progettazione di Internet siano
stati sfruttati per la sorveglianza globale.
In altre parole: so anche io di cosa parlo, nonostante non fossi lì a
vedere o a lavorare con le persone geniali che hanno implementato
Internet... e nonostante io abbia sicuramente 1/1000 della tua
competenza.
Abbiamo addirittura osato scriverlo nel capitolo relativo al livello L0
(The net) dell'ormai autocitatissimo libro https://c18e.it, per dire la
faccia tosta che ci ritroviamo.
> ARPANET era una rete specifica, costruita con macchine dedicate
Internet è fatta di tanti layers, quelli "core" sono gli stessi di
ARPANET.
[...]
> Internet invece è una rete di reti, non una rete fatta su uno
> specifico hardware, basata su una suite di protocolli: TCP/IP.
ARPANET è stata la prima a implementare il TCP/IP, quindi la differenza
/architetturale/ tra Internet e ARPANET _non_ è il protocollo TCP/IP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol
suite.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Early versions of this networking model were known as the Department of
Defense (DoD) model because the research and development were funded by
the United States Department of Defense through DARPA.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Quindi dire che il "core" di quello che poi è stato inglobato in
Internet fu finanziata dalla DARPA (militari USA) non è una
semplificazione.
[...]
> Le reti multi-platform erano Internet, NetWare, X.25 e ISO/OSI.
> Queste tre reti competerono a lungo sul mercato, con OSI propugnata
> dagli europei.
e Internet/ARPANET dagli USA
> for a period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, engineers,
> organizations and nations were polarized over the issue of which
> standard <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars>
ecco appunto: Protocol /War/, cito:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The United States Department of Defense developed and tested TCP/IP
during the 1970s in collaboration with universities and researchers in
the United States, United Kingdom and France. IPv4 was released in 1981
and the DoD made it standard for all military computer networking. By
1984, an international reference model known as the OSI model had been
agreed upon, with which TCP/IP was not compatible. Many governments in
Europe – particularly France, West Germany, the United Kingdom and the
European Economic Community – and also the United States Department of
Commerce mandated compliance with the OSI model and the US Department of
Defense planned to transition away from TCP/IP to OSI.
Meanwhile, the development of a complete Internet protocol suite by
1989, and partnerships with the telecommunication and computer industry
to incorporate TCP/IP software into various operating systems laid the
foundation for the widespread adoption of TCP/IP as a comprehensive
protocol suite. While OSI developed its networking standards in the late
1980s, TCP/IP came into widespread use on multi-vendor networks for
internetworking and as the core component of the emerging Internet.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars)
La mia (e non solo) interpretazione storica è: Internet è una
architettura composta da protocolli "core" basati su standard de-facto
imposti per mezzo della supremazia economica *e* geopolitica degli USA
sull'Europa e ça va sans dire sul resto del mondo.
> Tuttavia OSI crollò sotto il suo stesso peso:
Questo è un modo di narrare i fatti.
L'altro modo è: può essere che /tecnicamente/ il protocollo OSI fosse
così tanto più "pesante" di Internet, ma è un fatto storico che lo
standard approvato in tutto l'occidente sia stato OSI, che però non è
mai stato _implementato_ su larga scala.
La differenza a mio avviso _dirimente_ tra il modello OSI e quello
Internet è questa:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The design of protocols in the TCP/IP model of the Internet does not
concern itself with strict hierarchical encapsulation and layering. RFC
3439 contains a section entitled "Layering considered harmful".[43]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model#Comparison_with_TCP/IP_model)
Ma guarda un po': è **esattamente** la /provvidenziale/ mancanza di
(encrypted) hierarchical encapsulation e layering che ha reso necessarie
le "overlay network" come Tor e GNUnet per poter instaurare connessioni
di rete decenti dal punto di vista della _riservatezza_ e _anonimità_,
che è un principio costituzionalmente garantito.
Io ed altri abbiamo ragione di credere che il fallimento del modello OSI
NON sia stato per suoi demeriti tecnici, anche perché di demeriti
tecnici Internet, in _tutto_ il suo spettro da "internet layer" fino a
"application layer", di difetti ne ha **una valanga**: è /ampiamente/
dimostrato.
Un sunto abbastanza efficace delle falle tecniche di Internet è questo:
https://secushare.org/broken-internet
cito UN aspetto, quello dell'IP:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
According to Washington Post's "Net of Insecurity" series the inventors
of TCP/IP originally wanted to build basic end-to-end cryptography
directly into the protocols, thus guaranteeing at least the authenticity
of transmissions if not the content, within the possibilities of the
late '70s. By impeding any public use of cryptography, the National
Security Agency fundamentally broke the Internet early on. Since then we
not only have an Internet which is unencrypted by default, it is also
insecure as the provenience of any IP packet can be spoofed at will.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Tutti ricorderanno che fino al 1999 la crittografia era soggetta a
restrizioni sull'export perché elencata nel United States Munitions
List. Anche questo è un fatto ed è anche per questo che la crittografia
non fu implementata.
L'inchiesta di Craig Timberg sul Washington Post [1] a cui fanno
riferimento sopra è pubblicata in 5 parti, quelle più pertinenti a
Internet sono:
1. «A flaw in the design - The Internet’s founders saw its promise but
didn’t foresee users attacking one another», del 2015.05.30
disponibile qui: https://archive.ph/fzHxa
o qui: https://web.archive.org/web/20150601091347/https://www.washingtonpost.com/s…
2. «The long life of a quick fix - Internet protocol from 1989 leaves
data vulnerable to hjjackers», del 2015.05.31
disponibile qui: https://archive.ph/Y3cUW
e qui: https://web.archive.org/web/20230927194659/https://www.washingtonpost.com/s…
3. «A disaster foretold — and ignored LOpht’s warnings about the
Internet drew notice but little action», del 2015.06.22
disponibile qui: https://archive.ph/cdAkH
e qui: https://web.archive.org/web/20230927194939/https://www.washingtonpost.com/s…
[...]
> Per merito di Bill Joy, TCP/IP venne incluso nella distribuzione di
> Unix 4.2 BSD e divenne lo standard di rete ovunque, sia come software
> free, che per la diffusione di Unix.
Esatto: la deficienza degli europei molto probabilmente fu quella di non
avere un indutrial-military complex come quello USA (che include le
università), che diffondeva standard de-facto attraverso software
libero... non-copyleft.
A onor del vero un timido tentativo di dotarsi di una adeguata industria
informatica fu fatto in Italia con la Olivetti, ma non so se in Olivetti
abbiano mai pensato seriamente di prendere il codice BSD e implementarci
su i protocolli del modello OSI. Sono ignorante in questa parte di
storia.
Comunque sia, Olivetti fu /ammazzata/ (per fortuna non come con Mattei)
... pensate come sarebbe potuta essere diversa la storia.
Ma per tornare alla vecchia Europa, è dai tempi di ECHELON che ai suoi
vertici sanno _perfettamente_ come gli USA usano il loro dominio
geoplolitico per perseguire i propri interessi, tanto da farne una
commissione d'inchiesta con tanto di rapporto, ovviamente **schifato** e
di conseguenza caduto nel dimenticatoio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Committee_on_the_ECHELON_Intercepti…
Dulcis in fundo, svelo un segreto: Internet è il medium usato nei
programmi di sorveglianza nipotini di nonna ECHELON.
[...]
> In altre parole Internet è uno dei principali successi del free
> software e dei protocolli aperti non proprietari.
Anche il modello OSI non era proprietario ed era aperto, ed era stato
addirittura approvato /anche/ dal dipartimento del commercio USA che
aveva _imposto_ la transizione.
Diciamo che fu un aborto spIntaneo, OK? :-O
Cordiali saluti, 380°
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22The+making+of+a+vulnerable+Internet%22+site%3A…
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«Noi, incompetenti come siamo,
non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché»
Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
Sept. 27, 2023
Cyber Crossover and Its Escalatory Risks for Europe - Saalman et al. - SIPRI
by Diego.Latella
Appena pubblicato
Cyber Crossover and Its Escalatory Risks for Europe
Dr Lora Saalman, Fei Su and Larisa Saveleva Dovgal
https://doi.org/10.55163/SIEP1930
Publisher: SIPRI
SIPRI, Stockholm:
September, 2023
DL
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Fwd: EDRi-gram 27 September 2023: Civil society urges EU to regulate police tech in AI Act, say no to CSAR mass surveillance, & more!
by J.C. DE MARTIN
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Subject: EDRi-gram 27 September 2023: Civil society urges EU to
regulate police tech in AI Act, say no to CSAR mass surveillance, & more!
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:55:07 +0200
From: EDRi - European Digital Rights <edrigram(a)edri.org>
EDRi-gram 27 September 2023: Civil society urges EU to regulate police
tech in AI Act, say no to CSAR mass surveillance, & more!
A sign reading "EDRi-gram" <https://edri.org/take-action/edri-gram/>
Dear supporters,
The weather might be cooling off but the digital rights world is heating
up with activity.
Civil society continues to fight against dystopian surveillance technology.
More than 85 organisations have called on EU governments to *say no to
the CSA Regulation* until it fully protects online rights, freedoms, and
security. Over 115 civil society organisations are urging EU lawmakers
to *regulate the use of AI technology for harmful and discriminatory
surveillance by law enforcement*.
In the *Czech Republic*, EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium have details on
the Czech *police’s illegal use of a facial recognition system*.
In this EDRi-gram you will find out more about:
* *Privacy & Data protection*
o Meta pledges to ask EU users for consent before showing
behavioural ads <#privacyarticle2>
o Czech police use facial recognition system, IuRe finds out
details <#privacyarticle3>
o Polish Senate calls Pegasus illegal and demands scrutiny over
secret services
<#privacyarticle4>
* *Mass Surveillance & AI*
o EU lawmakers must regulate the harmful use of tech by law
enforcement in the AI Act <#aiarticle1>
o Open letter: EU countries should say no to the CSAR mass
surveillance proposal <#privacyarticle1>
o Potential loopholes in the AI Act could allow use of intrusive
tech on ‘national security’ grounds <#aiarticle2>
<#aiarticle3>**
* *EDRi's Recommendations <#recommended>*
* *Jobs & Events! <#jobs>*
Illustration showing people being labeled and targeted by the police;
journalists; activists, etc.
<https://edri.org/our-work/polish-senate-calls-pegasus-illegal-and-demands-s…>
Polish Senate calls Pegasus illegal and demands scrutiny over
secret services
////EDRi member,/Panoptykon Foundation <https://panoptykon.org/>
/
The Senate of Poland concluded its investigation on the use of Pegasus
by Polish secret services to spy on opposition politicians and
unapologetic public persons.
They declared that *Pegasus should be considered illegal* in Poland and
the secret services should be put under strict and independent scrutiny.
*Doubts also arose around the fairness of Poland’s 2019 elections*.*Read
more.
<https://edri.org/our-work/polish-senate-calls-pegasus-illegal-and-demands-s…>*
Meta pledges to ask EU users for consent before showing
behavioural ads
////Mickey Manakas <https://twitter.com/m_manakas>, PR
Manager, EDRi member, /noyb <https://noyb.eu/en>/
In a surprise announcement, Meta made the long overdue promise to
finally *ask its users for their consent before showing ads* – at least
if they live in the European Union, EEA or Switzerland.
According to Meta, the change is due to a new interpretation of the GDPR
by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). What about the fact that
the company has been in legal trouble over its advertising business in
the past five years?*Read more.
<https://edri.org/our-work/meta-pledges-to-ask-eu-users-for-consent-before-s…>*
Czech police use facial recognition system, IuRe finds out details
////EDRi member, /Iuridicum Remedium <https://iure.org/> /
EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) have details on the Czech police’s
*illegal use of a facial recognition system*. The country’s data
protection authorities were not consulted in advance on the system,
which is being used for biometric identification.
IuRe's findings have led to increased scrutiny of the use of the system
and an examination by the Czech Office for Personal Data
Protection.*Read more.
<https://edri.org/our-work/czech-police-use-facial-recognition-system-iure-f…>*
Donate to EDRi <https://edri.org/take-action/donate/>
<https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-statement-regulate-police-tech-ai-a…>
EU lawmakers must regulate the harmful use of tech by law
enforcement in the AI Act
////EDRi <https://edri.org/> & EDRi member, /Access Now
<https://www.accessnow.org/>/
As the European Union inches closer to finalising the AI Act, civil
society organisations are concerned about the unchecked, discriminatory
and mass surveillance due to the use of AI in *policing and migration
control*.
Thus, *115 civil society organisations* are asking EU policymakers to
regulate the use of AI systems by law enforcement, migration control and
national security authorities throughout Europe. *Read more
<https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-statement-regulate-police-tech-ai-a…>.*
Open letter: EU countries should say no to the CSAR mass
surveillance proposal
////EDRi <https://edri.org/>
EDRi and 81 organisations have sent an open letter to European
governments to once again urge them *to say no to the Child Sexual Abuse
(CSA) Regulation* until it fully protects online rights, freedoms, and
security.
This public call builds on the widely supported academic and tech
position
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Aeex72MtFBjKhExRTooVMWN9TC-pbH-5LEaAbM…>
of nearly *500 scientists and researchers*, who have warned that the
proposal is technically dangerous and poses a severe threat to
encryption. *Read more
<https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-eu-countries-should-say-no-to-the-csa…>*.
Potential loopholes in the AI Act could allow use of intrusive
tech on ‘national security’ grounds
EDRi affiliate, /European Center for Not-for-Profit Law
<https://ecnl.org/> & /Stop Killer Robots
<https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/>
Both the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (COE)
negotiations are considering *excluding AI systems designed, developed
and used for military purposes*, matters of national defence and
national security from the scope of their final regulatory frameworks.
If this indeed happens, we will have a *huge regulatory gap* regarding
such systems. *Read more
<https://edri.org/our-work/potential-loopholes-in-the-ai-act-could-allow-use…>.*
Read
How the European Parliament will vote for and against biometric
mass surveillance?
Joe McNamee <https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcnamee/>/
/
The purpose of this article is to explain the decision-making process
for the AI Act and how it risks leading to the rollout of AI-powered
biometric mass surveillance. *We can, together, stop biometric mass
surveillance*, for the good of people in the EU and for populations
around the globe. *Read more*
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-european-parliament-vote-against-biometr…>.
Do
Demand a future without manipulation
The Greens/EFA <https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/>
In a world with the EU Digital Services Act, surveillance-based
advertising will be banned to help the industry to innovate and start
using respectful ways of advertising. *Contextual advertising, which
does not rely on personal data, will become the norm*. Demand a future
without manipulation. *Act now!
<https://afuturewithoutmanipulation.eu/surveillance-based-advertising/#afutu…>*
Watch
Telegram isn’t as private as you think
NBTV, with Naomi Brockwell
<https://www.youtube.com/@NaomiBrockwellTV>
Telegram advertises itself as a private messaging app, and has attracted
over 800 million users. But, *if you're looking for private
communication, this is not the app to recommend*. This video explains
how encryption actually works on Telegram: how it's not possible to
end-to-end encrypt group chats, and how direct messages are not private
by default. *Watch the video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtRQKQkvUfE>*.
Listen
The world of mesh networking with Elektra Wagenrad
EDRi member, /fsfe <https://fsfe.org/index.en.html>
/
With this episode the Software Freedom Podcast opens the door to the
fascinating and sometimes complex world of mesh networking. *If you are
new to this world*, this episode is an easy entrance to it. Elektra not
only explains the theory behind the protocols but also dives deeper into
the philosophical idea of it.*Listen to the podcast
<https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-14.en.html>*.
<https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-13-september-2023>
*EDRi *| Policy Advisor (2 year position)
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/edri-is-looking-for-a-policy-advisor/>
| Brussels, Belgium
*ICCL *| Head of Research and Policy
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/iccl-is-hiring-head-of-research-and-po…>
| not mentioned
*Access Now* | Senior Finance Officer & Grants and Contracts Manager
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/access-now-is-hiring-for-program-assis…>
| Brussels, Belgium & remote
*Civitates* | Senior Programme Manager
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/civitates-is-hiring-for-a-senior-progr…>
| Brussels, Belgium & remote
*Freedom of the Press Foundation* | Senior Security Engineer
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/freedom-of-the-press-foundation-is-hir…>
| Remote
*Human Rights Watch* | Director, Technology and Human rights
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/technologist-information-security-vaca…>
| Multiple Locations Considered
*Liberties* | Communication and Campaign assistant (intern)
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/liberties-is-hiring-for-a-communicatio…>
| Berlin, Germany
*Mozilla Foundation* | Executive Director
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/mozilla-is-hiring-for-marketing-manage…>
| Various
*noyb* |Full stack developer & Data protection lawyer
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/noyb-is-hiring-for-a-legal-trainee/>
| Vienna, Austria
*Privacy International* | Advocacy officer
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/privacy-international-is-hiring-for-va…>
| London, UK
*SOMO* | Tech Mergers Project Coordinator
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/somo-is-hiring-for-a-tech-mergers-proj…>
| Amsterdam, the Netherlands or Brussels, Belgium
*Statewatch* | Communications worker
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/fundraiser-vacancy-at-statewatch/>
| London, UK
*Systemic Justice* | Systemic Justice roster & Student Researchers
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/systemic-justice-is-hiring-for-finance…>
| Various
*The Center for Democracy & Technology* | Senior Policy Analyst
elections & democracy & Deputy Director, Free Expression Project
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/the-center-for-democracy-technology-is…>
| Washington, D.C.
*Wikimedia Foundation*|Creative Associate - Online Fundraising,Privacy
Specialist & Senior Site Reliability Engineer
<https://edri.org/take-action/careers/wikimedia-foundation-is-hiring-for-var…>|
Various
04.09 - 23.11.2023|*Virtual School on Internet Governance*
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Sept. 27, 2023
Re: [nexa] Quello che alla massa importa.
by M. Fioretti
Buongiorno Giovanni, e lista
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 09:07:27 AM +0200, 380° wrote:
> Buongiorno,
>
> "M. Fioretti" <mfioretti(a)nexaima.net> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 20:13:09 PM +0200, Giuseppe Attardi wrote:
> >
> >> Sono d’accordo con Marco, che alla gran parte della gente, l’unica
> >> cosa che importi è che il software sia invisibile, ossia che
> >> funzioni senza troppo interferire con i nostri modi di fare.
> >
> > nel caso non si fosse capito, io non dico solo che alla massa importi
> > solo quello e bisogna agire di conseguenza se si vuole cambiare
> > qualcosa.
> ...
> Quindi, se il criterio non solo per poter /addirittura/ agire di
> conseguenza ma anche solo poterne discutere, anche animatamente, in
> questa lista è che "alla massa importi solo quello" allora direi che
> /chiunque/ intervenga in questa lista sta perdendo il suo tempo
Evidentemente avrei dovuto esprimermi con piu' precisione, "bisogna
PRENDERNE ATTO e agire ANCHE di conseguenza.."
In ogni caso, dove l'ho scritto che qui si deve fare sempre quel
presupposto "anche solo per poterne discutere" di certe cose?
Quello che io dico **sulle masse**, da vent'anni e in tutte le salse,
e' solo UNA cosa, che non esclude affatto tutto il resto: dico che
se vuoi davvero risolvere IN TEMPO UTILE, prima che diventino
ingovernabili, tanti problemi SOCIALI, ETICI, CULTURALI,
EDUCATIVI... legati al software, hai assolutamente bisogno di sostegno
DI MASSA per riuscirci. Dico che un sostegno di quel genere lo puoi
ottenere solo con linguaggio e azioni che tengano in conto e accettino
limiti e pretese delle masse di oggi, e spesso non ci provino nemmeno, a
cambiare quelli per primi, se vuoi ottenere qualcosa.
Spesso, mi permetto anche di sostenere quell'approccio facendo
sommessamente notare che, se l'unico effetto in ~10 anni di progetti
come freedombox, diaspora ecc... e' stato che da allora Facebook e'
passato da 1 a 3 miliardi di utenti forse sarebbe ora di provare altre
strade.
Su cosa significhi o dovrebbe significare "software invisibile" la MIA
risposta e' "software che mi permette di COMUNICARE direttamente con
chi lo sta usando, senza sapere che di che software si tratta, o
doverlo installare anch'io". Qualsiasi client email e' software
invisibile, roba come facebook, whatsapp o twitter no.
Ovviamente questa condizione non e' sufficiente a risolvere tutti i
problemi di cui si parla qui, ma mi pare necessaria per non pochi di
essi.
Tutto qui.
Marco
https://mfioretti.substack.com
Sept. 27, 2023
Quello che alla massa importa.
by 380°
Buongiorno,
"M. Fioretti" <mfioretti(a)nexaima.net> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 20:13:09 PM +0200, Giuseppe Attardi wrote:
>
>> Sono d’accordo con Marco, che alla gran parte della gente, l’unica
>> cosa che importi è che il software sia invisibile, ossia che
>> funzioni senza troppo interferire con i nostri modi di fare.
>
> nel caso non si fosse capito, io non dico solo che alla massa importi
> solo quello e bisogna agire di conseguenza se si vuole cambiare
> qualcosa.
Premesso che:
1. non è proprio scontato che quello che davvero importi alla gran parte
delle /persone/ in merito al software sia che debba essere invisibile,
le aspirazioni umane a volte riescono a sorprendendere anche i più
insensibili
2. la maggior parte delle /persone/, comprese molte qui dentro,
probabilmente non hanno la più pallida idea di cosa significhi "software
invisibile" (io riesco solo a intuirlo /vagamente/) ma **soprattutto**
COME interferisce "con i nostri modi di fare"
...ma facciamo finta che sia scontato 1. e tutto chiaro 2.
«Ho udito certa gente discutere abilmente
Della psicanalisi come fosse l'uncinetto
E io che nella vita prima d'andare a letto
Non so se addormentarmi o finire il cruciverba»
[Oggi hai parlato troppo, Bluvertigo]
Faccio sommessamente notare che alla "gente" (massa?) praticamente il
100% degli argomenti trattati in questa lista importa poco *e*
superficialmente, per usare un eufemismo, NESSUN argomento escluso: il
software, l'interoperabilità, l'AI e come viene finanziata,
l'automazione, la c.d. alfabetizzazione digitale, internet, i social e
gli adulti, i social e i minori, la network neutrality (a proposito: che
diavolo significa?!?), il riconoscimento facciale, i modelli di
business... e tutto il resto che possiamo leggere negli archivi di
questa lista.
Quindi, se il criterio non solo per poter /addirittura/ agire di
conseguenza ma anche solo poterne discutere, anche animatamente, in
questa lista è che "alla massa importi solo quello" allora direi che
/chiunque/ intervenga in questa lista sta perdendo il suo tempo; ripeto,
/se/ è vero che:
«alla "gente" frega niente di sapere COME funziona, l'importante è che
VADI»
Se permettete, io vorrei continuare a parlare di cose delle quali
ritenete che alla "gente" importi poco e, dove riesco, /agire/ di
conseguenza. Grazie!
Però oh: «noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per
suggerire alcunché», non mi stancherò mai di ripeterlo.
[...]
Saluti, 380°
--
380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego)
«Noi, incompetenti come siamo,
non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché»
Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
Sept. 27, 2023
webinar
by Filippo Barbera
ciao vi condivido le info di questo webinar. ciao. fb
The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar
Venue: KO301 & Online on Zoom (see Zoom link in the end of the email)
*Monday, October 2 @ 14:30CET*
__________________________________________________
*Accelerating (social) science with human-aware artificial intelligence*
*James Evans*
*University of Chicago*
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on published scientific
findings have been used to invent valuable materials and targeted
therapies, but they typically ignore the human scientists who continually
alter the landscape of discovery. Here we show that incorporating the
distribution of human expertise by training unsupervised models on
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research content alone, especially when relevant literature is sparse.
These models succeed by predicting human predictions and the scientists who
will make them. By tuning human-aware AI to avoid the crowd, we can
generate scientifically promising “alien” hypotheses unlikely to be
imagined or pursued without intervention until the distant future, which
hold promise to punctuate scientific advance beyond questions currently
pursued. I also explore the creation of other kinds of data-driven, machine
learned "digital doubles" (e.g., LLM-based social agents) that facilitate
cycles of semi-automated virtual and staged experiments tuned to reveal
social and scientific insights and generate social and material
technologies. Accelerating human discovery or probing its blind spots, I
show how human-aware and complementary AI enables us to move toward and
beyond the contemporary (social) scientific frontier.
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the knowledge they produce and its value for themselves and the system.
Evans designs observatories for understanding that fuse data from text,
images and other sensors with results from interactive crowd
sourcing and online experiments. Much of Evans' work has investigated
modern science and technology to identify collective biases, generate new
leads taking these into account, and imagine alternative discovery regimes.
He has identified R&D institutions that generate more and less novelty,
precision, density and robustness. Evans also explores thinking and knowing
in other domains ranging from political ideology to popular culture. His
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Sept. 27, 2023
Re: [nexa] [OT] il modello di business di Wikipedia (Wikimedia)
by Giuseppe Attardi
Si sente dire spesso che Internet nasce da ArpaNet che fu finanziata dai militari e, “quindi” è maligna e serve gli interessi geopolitici degli USA.
Ma questo è una grossa semplificazione, propagandata dai media per gettarvi discredito. ARPANET era una rete specifica, costruita con macchine dedicate, gli IMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor) prodotti dalla BBN nel 1969.
Internet invece è una rete di reti, non una rete fatta su uno specifico hardware, basata su una suite di protocolli: TCP/IP.
In 1973 Kahn and Cerf had worked out a fundamental reformulation [of ARPANET, ndr], in which the differences between local network protocols were hidden by using a common internetwork protocol <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetwork_protocol>.
Il disegno dei protocolli fu largamente influenzato dai francesi Pouzin e Zimmerman, che in seguito fu il progettista del modello ISO/OSI.
Full disclosure: ho lavorato con Zimmermann a un progetto europeo Esprit chiamato Chameleon, per sviluppare un sistema operativo di rete a microkernel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorus_Syst%C3%A8mes_SA) che fu poi acquisito da Sun Microsystems.
La RFC 1122 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1122) che specificava i protocolli, la lessi quando circolava nel 1978 al MIT, dove David Moon li implementò in sostituzione dei protocolli della ChaosNet dell’AI Lab.
L’idea di fondo era che TCP/IP potesse operare su qualunque tipo di link fisico e fosse un protocollo end-to-end, consentendo di attraversare reti di natura molto diversa tra loro.
The internet layer does not distinguish between the various transport layer protocols. IP carries data for a variety of different upper layer protocols <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_layer_protocol>.
Internet non era l’unico tipo di rete che esisteva all’epoca. I principali contendenti erano NetWare (derivata da XNS di Xerox), X.25, DecNet, BitNet, AppleNet e i protocolli ISO/OSI.
Alcune di queste erano proprietarie e funzionavano solo tra macchine di uno stesso produttore.
Le reti multi-platform erano Internet, NetWare, X.25 e ISO/OSI.
Queste tre reti competerono a lungo sul mercato, con OSI propugnata dagli europei.
for a period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, engineers, organizations and nations were polarized over the issue of which standard <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars>, the OSI model or the Internet protocol suite, would result in the best and most robust computer networks
Tuttavia OSI crollò sotto il suo stesso peso:
The OSI protocol suite <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_protocols> was considered by many as too complicated and inefficient, and to a large extent unimplementable. Taking the "forklift upgrade" approach to networking, it specified eliminating all existing networking protocols and replacing them at all layers of the stack. This made implementation difficult and was resisted by many vendors and users with significant investments in other network technologies.
Per merito di Bill Joy, TCP/IP venne incluso nella distribuzione di Unix 4.2 BSD e divenne lo standard di rete ovunque, sia come software free, che per la diffusione di Unix.
BBN had a big contract to implement TCP/IP, but their stuff didn't work, and grad student Joy's stuff worked. So they had this big meeting and this grad student in a T-shirt shows up, and they said, "How did you do this?" And Bill said, "It's very simple — you read the protocol and write the code.
In altre parole Internet è uno dei principali successi del free software e dei protocolli aperti non proprietari.
— Beppe
> On 25 Sep 2023, at 19:30, 380° <g380(a)biscuolo.net> wrote:
>
>> Un’altro esempio è Internet, che nacque tra un gruppo ristretto di
>> ricercatori,
>
> Se non ho capito male Internet è semplicemente la prosecuzione
> /amministrativa/ di ARPANET che tra il 1984 e il 1988 venne adottata
> anche dalle prime aziende software e poi gradualmente la sua gestione
> trasferita ai primi ISP commerciali.
>
> ARPANET naque nella Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), del
> Dipartimento di Stato USA.
>
> Solo per dire che c'è tantissima geopolitica USA del periodo della
> guerra fredda nel "core" di Internet.
>
Sept. 26, 2023
seminario sabato 30 settembre 2023 ore 9 -13 ad oggetto" Il valore dei dati e la transizione digitale
by Mauro Alovisio
Gent.mi
segnalo all'interno della quinta edizione del corso di perfezionamento in
materia di GDPR il seminario: "Il* valore dei dati e la transizione
digitale: le nuove sfide"* che si svolgerà in presenza sabato 30
settembre 2023 dalle ore 9 alle ore 13, presso l'aula B2 del campus Luigi
Einaudi dell'l'Università degli Studi di Torino in Lungo Dora Siena 100/a
con le relazioni del prof. Pierluigi Perri dell'Università Statale di
Milano e gli interventi di Agostino Ghiglia e del prof. Francesco Pizzetti.
Durante il seminario sarà presentato il volume di Agostino
Ghiglia: *Educazione
Civica digitale. Abbecedario essenziale,* edizione Maggioli, 2023
Vi riporto il link:
https://www.giurisprudenza.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl/Show?_id=d5d8
Per iscrizioni: corsoprivacydpo(a)unito.it
Per gli avvocati sono stati riconosciuti 4 crediti per la formazione
obbligatoria attraverso l'iscrizione con la piattaforma Ticonosco,
Grazie per l'attenzione
Un caro saluto
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Sept. 26, 2023
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
by J.C. DE MARTIN
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance
technology’
Devin Coldewey
<https://techcrunch.com/author/devin-coldewey/>@techcrunch
<https://twitter.com/techcrunch>/ 1:01 AM GMT+2•September 26, 2023
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of
their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president
Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI
is a surveillance technology.”
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 <https://youtu.be/amNriUZNP8w>,
Whittaker explained her perspective that AI is largely inseparable from
the big data and targeting industry perpetuated by the likes of Google
and Meta, as well as less consumer-focused but equally prominent
enterprise and defense companies. (Her remarks lightly edited for clarity.)
“It requires the surveillance business model; it’s an exacerbation of
what we’ve seen since the late ’90s and the development of surveillance
advertising. AI is a way, I think, to entrench and expand the
surveillance business model,” she said. “The Venn diagram is a circle.”
continua qui:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamen…
Sept. 26, 2023